Christian Heilmann

addEvent recoding contest

Thursday, September 8th, 2005 at 10:12 am

We all love Scott Andrew’s addEvent and how unobtrusive it allows us to add and remove event handlers from and to elements. But now things have turned sour and Peter Paul Koch gathers the forces of good to come up with a better solution:

I just launched the “addEvent() recoding contest”:http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/09/addevent_recodi.html, aimed at producing a new
version of Scott Andrew’s addEvent() and removeEvent() functions.

Script away!

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